What gifts might our Gift Guide pickers pick if they were guided to pick gifts from the lists of the other gift pickers to give? That’s because this year, once our collective of elfin scribes finished sourcing all manner of gifts, goodies, gadgets and gear — organized around the theme of celebrating all that Los Angeles has to offer — …
The gift suggestions here all have two things in common: They’re small enough to stow in a stocking, and they give off serious big California energy. SF Mercantile’s design was inspired by the 1913 sheet music cover for California’s state song, “I Love You, California.” That gives this tiny trinket an outsize dose of big Cali energy, no? $12 at …
I made two pots of beans this week and feel especially accomplished. I was motivated to try as many recipes as possible from Steve Sando’s newest cookbook: “The Bean Book: 100 Recipes for Cooking With All Kinds of Beans, From the Rancho Gordo Kitchen,” written with Julia Newberry and published by Ten Speed Press. “My goal,” Sando says, “is that …
